لَئِن قَدَّمتَ قَبلي رِجالً فَطالَما
مَشيتُ عَلى رِسلي فَكُنتُ المُقدِما
Though you went before me with men, long have I walked
On my own missions, and have ever been the first.
وَلكِنَّ هذا الدَهرَ تَأتي صُروفَهُ
فَتُبرِمُ مَنقوضاً وَتَنقِضُ مُبرِما
Yet time's changes alternate, and fate's caprices fall,
On the dejected, with crushing force and on the elated, gently.
